Jury Pool Profile

Bossier Parish, Louisiana

Republican +43.3 (2024)

Parish seat: Benton
Judicial district: 26th Judicial District Court
Population (July 2025 estimate): 131,867; Census PEP. The five-year ACS survey average is 129,789.

At a glance

Bossier Parish is a 131,867-person venue. The parish population is 63% White and 24% Black (Census race-alone categories). Median household income is $68,234, $7,196 above the LA state median of $61,038; 28.4% of residents 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher. 7.9% of residents 5 and older speak a language other than English at home, most commonly Spanish. The largest published sector is Trade, transportation & utilities, at 20.9% of covered employment, average pay $47,562/year. Trailing-12-month unemployment is 3.95%, below the 4.32% state average. The parish carried the Republican presidential candidate in 2016, 2020, and 2024, taking 70% to 71% of the vote across the three.

Population: 129,789
Median household income: $69,617
Unemployment: 4.0%

Who sits on a jury?

Racially mixed

50–70% White and ≥15% Black. This parish: 63% / 24%.

Bossier Parish has a population of 129,789, with a median age of 36.7. By Census race-alone categories, White residents make up 63.4%; Black residents 23.8%. Independently, 8.3% of residents identify as Hispanic or Latino of any race.

The median household earns $68,234; 28.4% of residents 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher; 16.5% live below the federal poverty line.

Race & ethnicity

White (non-Hispanic) 79,969 61.6%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 10,784 8.3%
Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 30,531 23.5%
Asian (non-Hispanic) 2,068 1.6%
Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 5,631 4.3%
American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 186 0.1%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 23 0.0%
Some other race (non-Hispanic) 597 0.5%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Age distribution

Median age 36.7

Under 18 32,213 24.8%
18–24 10,790 8.3%
25–44 36,972 28.5%
45–64 29,797 23.0%
65 and over 20,017 15.4%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Income & poverty

Median household income: $68,234; 90% interval $64,096–$72,372; +$7,196 vs LA · 11th of 64
Below poverty line: 16.5%; 90% interval 14.6%–18.4%; −2.1 pp vs LA · 51st of 64

U.S. Census SAIPE 2024

Economic context

Led by healthcare & education and trade & transportation

Counting the cells BLS withholds (private jobs estimated from Census County Business Patterns, government jobs from the statewide mix), the two largest sectors are within 20% of each other: Education & health services about 9,710, Trade, transportation & utilities about 9,450.

Trade, transportation & utilities is the largest published sector at 20.9% of covered employment, followed by Leisure & hospitality at 19.1%. Trailing-12-month unemployment is 3.95%, below the Louisiana state average.

Local economy

Unemployment (12-mo): 4.0%; −0.37 pp vs. state
County GDP: $7.7B; 2.33% of state
Avg. annual pay: $53,633
Establishments: 3,735

U.S. BLS 2026M07 · U.S. BEA 2024 · BLS QCEW 2025

Top employment sectors

Average annual employment by supersector

Trade, transportation & utilities 9,446 20.9%
Leisure & hospitality 8,631 19.1%
Education & health services 5,586 12.3%
Professional & business services 5,008 11.1%
Public administration 2,809 6.2%
Construction 2,238 4.9%
Manufacturing 2,132 4.7%
Financial activities 1,720 3.8%
Other services 1,416 3.1%
Natural resources & mining 1,234 2.7%
Information 335 0.7%

The sectors listed cover 89.5% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

BLS QCEW 2025

Housing

Home ownership: 65.1%; −2.3 pp vs LA · 53rd of 64
Median gross rent: $1,174; +$110 vs LA · 9th of 64
Owner-occupied: 33,084
Renter-occupied: 17,742

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Local economy in 3 reads

Diversified

Top three sectors employ 52% of the workforce, a relatively diversified local economy. Expect mixed employer backgrounds on the panel rather than concentration in any one institution or industry.
Moderate wage spread

Highest-paid sector (Natural resources & mining, $103,192/yr) pays 3.6× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $28,389/yr). Expect meaningful income variation across the panel.
Mixed business scale

Average establishment employs 12 workers, a mix of institutional employers and small businesses. Both employed-by-large-institution and small-business-owner perspectives are likely on the panel.

BLS QCEW 2025

Largest employers

Principal employers by headcount

2 of the top 5 employers on this list (2 of the listed 10) are in education & health services, accounting for 4,439 employees on this list. So education & health services is the largest sector by employment here, but most of the parish's five biggest named employers sit outside it. A panelist who works somewhere you recognize is probably not working where most of this parish works; ask where they work before assuming either pattern fits them.

#	Employer	Sector	Employees
1	Barksdale Air Force Base	Government (federal/military)	9,335
2	Bossier Parish School Board	Education (public K-12)	3,194
3	Willis-Knighton Health System	Healthcare	1,245
4	State of Louisiana	Government (state)	903
5	Margaritaville Resort Casino	Gaming & hospitality	709
6	Live! Casino & Resort	Gaming & hospitality	686
7	City of Bossier City	Government (municipal)	681
8	General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT)	Information technology / defense contracting	665
9	Bossier Parish Community College	Education (public higher education)	572
10	Sabre Industries	Manufacturing	540

Source: City of Bossier City, Louisiana, Annual Comprehensive Financial Report for the year ended December 31, 2025, Table 18, "Principal Employers, Current Year and Nine Years Ago." The city's Department of Finance prepared it from figures supplied by the Greater Bossier Economic Development Foundation, and its percentages are based on parish totals. (2025)

Political composition

Consistently strongly Republican

Republican candidate carried this parish in 2016, 2020, and 2024 (avg winning share: 71%). 'Strongly' threshold: ≥60% avg.

Bossier Parish was carried by the Republican candidate in the 2016, 2020, and 2024 cycles, with 71.0% in 2024, 69.7% in 2020, 71.2% in 2016.

Presidential results

2024 presidential · 52,232 votes cast

Republican
Democratic

Republican 37,105 71.0%
Democratic 14,467 27.7%
Other / third-party 660 1.3%

Election results 2024

Languages, households, faith & health

Family-majority, English-speaking

Family households are 63% of all households (thresholds: ≥70% = 'family-dominant'; 50–70% = 'family-majority'; <50% = 'singles/nonfamily-majority'). 7.9% of residents 5 and older speak a language other than English at home (threshold for 'linguistically diverse' is ≥10%).

7.9% of residents 5 years and older speak a language other than English at home. The most common are Spanish, Tagalog, French, Haitian, or Cajun. Veterans account for 11.0% of the adult civilian population (10,278 individuals).

Languages spoken at home

92.1% speak only English at home

Spanish 6,734 5.5%
Tagalog 518 0.4%
French, Haitian, or Cajun 442 0.4%
Vietnamese 286 0.2%
German or other West Germanic 221 0.2%
Arabic 181 0.1%
Korean 111 0.1%
Chinese 72 0.1%
Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 29 0.0%

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Household composition

Households: 50,826
Family households: 31,981; 62.9% of households
Married couples w/ children: 9,754; 30.5% of families
Single-mother families: 3,607; 11.3% of families
Veterans: 10,278; 11% of civilians 18+

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Religious composition

58.8% overall adherence rate

Evangelical Protestant 50,429 39.2%
Black Protestant 8,204 6.4%
Catholic 6,879 5.3%
Mainline Protestant 6,375 5.0%
Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 3,735 2.9%
Orthodox 135 0.1%

US Religion Census 2020

Health & education

Health insured: 90.5%; ±0.9 pp
Uninsured: 9.5%; ±0.9 pp; 4th of 64
With a disability: 15.5%; ±1 pp; 52nd of 64
Bachelor's or higher: 28.4%; ±1.7 pp; +1.4 pp vs LA · 9th of 64
Uninsured, under 65 (2024): 8.7%; 90% interval 7.8%–9.6% · Census SAHIE

The under-65 uninsured rate is not comparable to the ACS insurance figures, which cover all ages.

U.S. Census ACS 2024

Court infrastructure

Trial court: 26th Judicial District Court
Judges: 5
Court seats: Bossier Parish Courthouse (Benton, LA), Webster Parish Courthouse (Minden, LA)

This judicial district spans multiple parishes.

Court reference

Traffic safety context

Bossier totals, 2024

Traffic fatalities: 19; 22.1 per 100k drivers
Injuries: 1,903; 2213.5 per 100k drivers
Fatal crashes: 19
Licensed drivers: 85,971

NHTSA FARS 2024